Show HN: Kiddo Paint

Re:Show HN: Kiddo Paint by stevejohnson on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @04:42PM (#10261580)

I love the spirit of this, and I've been waiting for someone to make it for years, if I didn't get to it first!

If anyone wants to make a similar web app, I maintain an open source library whose sole purpose is putting JavaScript drawing programs on web pages with custom tools.

http://literallycanvas.com/

Here's a simple web app I made with it that saves to local storage and uploads to Dropbox and Imgur: http://drawplz.com

(The text tool is slightly broken right now; the selection box drag corners are invisible.)

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Re:Show HN: Kiddo Paint by ramaro on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @04:50PM (#10261616)

Also relevant: a large, collaborative live painting: http://webcanvas.com/

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Re:Show HN: Kiddo Paint by tekromancr on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:50PM (#10261961)

Oh, cool! I actually played with literally canvas a little while ago when I built this: http://tekromancr.github.io/drawchat/

I eventually decided to go with drawingboard, though I don't remember exactly why. But I was absolutely thinking about using literally canvas to build a kidpix-style webapp!

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Re:Show HN: Kiddo Paint by stevejohnson on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @06:32PM (#10262165)

I'd guess there was some kind of missing API. I've done a lot of work on the API over the past six months, so you might find it to be a lot better these days.

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